User:Teratornis/Wiki tasks

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This subpage is about administrative improvements I would like to see on RationalWiki. Even though I am an administrator with some powers, I try to tread as lightly as possible, by documenting everything I want to do before I do it. If you are not me and you want to comment on something, please do so on the talk page rather than on this page.

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[edit] To-do

These are tasks I have not completed yet (or persuaded someone else to do for me).

[edit] Interwiki links

  • Interwiki links
    • Write a help page describing the interwiki link prefixes available on RationalWiki.
    • Propitiate the site administrators to add some more prefixes, and document exactly how so they don't have to waste time thinking

[edit] Categories

  • Categories
  • Discussion about this task is ongoing on User talk:Teratornis/Wiki tasks#Categories - I will take no action until consensus emerges.
    • The consensus appears to be that nobody minds as long as I don't break anything that already exists, and I don't expect to break anything. Although admittedly, breaking things can be fun. Good thing I finished adolescence long ago.

01:24, 25 October 2007 (EDT): my first tiny project relating to categories will be to add the missing sort key to pages in Category:Help. The general sort key one normally adds to sort by page name without the page's namespace prefix is:

{{DEFAULTSORT:{{PAGENAME}}}}

However, some help pages have subpage names, and we only want the page name component after the last slash to be the sort key. For example, a page like:

should have the sort key:

{{DEFAULTSORT:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}

which sorts the page under "E" on the Category:Help page.

One slight complication is that some pages transclude the {{Essay}} template, which adds a default sort key of {{PAGENAME}} rather than {{SUBPAGENAME}}. I might mention on Template talk:Essay that sometimes {{SUBPAGENAME}} would be better. Of course the user can manually override the default sort key by inserting sort keys into each category link on a page. A stranger complication is that Help:Howtohint has a default sort key of "Goat!". I understand the attempt at invoking the local goat meme, but I don't think this improves the site. I'll just leave the broken sort key as it is in the article, just in case the author is in love with it.

[edit] Index

  • Work on my User:Teratornis/Index page, making it like the Editor's index to Wikipedia, only about rationality-type topics. See: User:Teratornis/Index/About and User talk:Teratornis/Index for technical details.
    • It would be nice to have a comprehensive index to all the typical arguments about God, creationism, etc. that come up repeatedly, with links to state-of-the-art answers.
    • The most straightforward way to start would be to index all the articles and pages on RationalWiki.
    • Linking to external sites such as God Is Imaginary and Internet Infidels would be useful; perhaps a separate index page would be best for that.

[edit] Templates

I wish to do several tasks relating to templates:

  • Adapt some useful templates from Wikipedia:

[edit] Infobox templates

20:34, 18 October 2007 (EDT): So far I have found only one infobox template on RationalWiki:

There may be more; I have not examined every template yet. There seems to be no category for infobox templates yet. Make one:

  • [[:Category:Infobox templates]]

[edit] Navigation templates

RationalWiki had several navigation templates before I arrived:

These templates use a kind of infobox style, i.e., they float to the upper right of a page. This might clash a little with actual infoboxes, if RationalWiki starts using them (I don't think any infobox templates are here as of 21:32, 27 October 2007 (EDT)).

Wikipedia has a large number of navigation templates that stretch across a page, and usually appear at the bottoms of articles. See: wp:WP:EIW#Series for more information, and check the examples:

I imported some stuff to RationalWiki we need to create them easily:

Navigation templates will be handy for sticking on the index. They can go right under index entries.

I will make these navigation templates first (giving them short names because I will need to add them to many pages):

[edit] Shortcuts

20:53, 18 October 2007 (EDT): another feature to support the index. Pick some shortcut prefixes that do not conflict with any existing namespaces or interwiki link prefixes. Some obvious candidates:

  • [[RW:]] - a shortcut to topics in the RationalWiki: (Project:) namespace, namely on these pages.
  • [[RWI:]] - a shortcut to topic headings in the index.

Other shortcut prefixes might be useful.

Supporting pages:

  • Template:Shortcut - displays a shortcut in a nice box; I copied this from Wikipedia already.
  • [[Project:Shortcut]] - documents how shortcuts (will) work on RationalWiki.
  • [[Project:Shortcuts]] - annotated list of shortcuts on RationalWiki.
  • [[Category:Redirects from shortcuts]]
  • [[Category:Redirects]]
  • [[Category:Administrative]] - look for any equivalent existing category.

See the analogous pages on Wikipedia:

[edit] Talk page guidelines

[edit] Customize MediaWiki:Talkpagetext

[edit] Done

When I or someone else finish a task, move it here.

[edit] Style classes

  • Style classes
    • At least enough to make the {{Tl|talkheader}} template work correctly.
      • {{Tl|Talkheader}} needs the messagebox standard-talk style class which an administrator can add to MediaWiki:Common.css here (which seems to be <gasp> empty now).
      • A comparison page on Bicycling Wiki which an administrator could simply copy here: MediaWiki:Common.css

[edit] Administrators

RationalWiki is a mobocracy. I just needed to find out who handles technical stuff. Other helpful users left information for me on User talk:Teratornis:

And see:

[edit] Concise lists

[edit] Think about donating some money

I'm taking kind of a shine to this place. I'm even thinking about donating some money. That would seem to require figuring out PayPal for the first time in my life. All this fangled technology.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links


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